sixties

The sixties was one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century. Although today many who were alive at the time tend to romanticize it as the era of peace and love, hippies and flower power, and the Beatles and Woodstock, the 1960s was also a decade of war, political assassinations, and a volatile cultural climate which pitted the young against the old.

Driven by the twin issues of civil rights and America's involvement in the Vietnam War, mostly college-aged protesters demonstrated in cities and on college campuses across the nation. The young generation further demonstrated its complete rejection of the values of their parents by openly experimenting with psychedelic drugs and the new sexual concepts of free love. Led by the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the rock music of the sixties reflected these same political and cultural values, producing wildly experimental and innovative works ranging from Sgt. Pepper to Blonde On Blonde.

The sixties are also remembered for the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Other landmark events of the period include the United States landing a man on the moon and the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

Today the sixties continue to be analyzed and celebrated on cultural and historical blogs like hippy.com and Sixties City.

by Glen Boyd Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sixties”

• Boden - Cloud Spotter Mac - £59.00 - Womens Clothing

  
  Link Fiend — Authority: 155
  £59.00 Info / Buy Product Information I love this mac and weve improved the fabric this season by making it even softer. Its still just as waterproof, so you can hide away in the hood when its raining cats and dogs. Let these graphic prints transport you ...
  7 hours ago

• writing is a job

  
  Deborah Wiles - One Pomegranate — Authority: 116
  The process of writing books is somewhat akin to a very long police interrogation in which the detective leans over the table littered with the butt ends of cigarettes and cold coffee in Styrofoam cups and says for the 87th time, "Now lets go over this again." -- Ann Patchett The entire essay (so well worth your ...
  19 hours ago

• Breaking! Alagnas still married!

  
  parterre box — Authority: 483
  According to an Angela Gheorghiu fansite (and what more reliable source could La Cieca ask?), the raven-tressed diva stated in an interview on Romanian television that she and current husband Roberto Alagna have no current plans to change their current matrimonial status. Says Gheorghiu, with a straight face: ...
  1 day ago

• Question about Potential and current relays

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 157
  I have been retired for a long time.I do not remember hearing of PT’s ANd CT’s in single phase compressor starting circuits.Question: Are they used in residential hvac units, or are they used mostly in household refrigerators?I still enjoy staying up with things of this nature.On refrigerators current relays have ...
  2 days ago

• US Summer Trip 2009 in Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon

  
  SkyMinds.Net — Authority: 125
  Voici la neuvième journée de l’ US Summer Trip 2009 . Il est 6h du matin et nous sommes déjà dans le hall sud du Golden Nugget, qui se trouve être quasiment en face du Plaza, ce qui est plutôt pratique. Nous attendons le bus qui doit nous emmener à l’aérodrome de Boulder City. Quelques bus ...
  4 days ago

• “The Christmas Song” Performed By Stevie Wonder (1967)

  
  Old School Music Lover — Authority: 112
  I must repeat it is so good to be back to blogging about the oldies! As for the Motown Holiday sounds, initially I thought I would do different songs with every post for December. But I have now decided to compare different Motown artists’ renditions of a few of the same songs. Since I started out with “The ...
  4 days ago

• Auction of psychedelic posters by Joe McHugh

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 879
  Eleven signed East Totem West posters by psychedelic artist Joe McHugh from the late 1960s are up for auction on eBay as a set. His famed "White Rabbit" poster (detail shown inset) is included. This image was the cover for the book "The White Rabbit and Other Delights." The book documented the East Totem West "hippie ...
  4 days ago

• Focus on: Barbara Hulanicki

  
  Fabfrocks — Authority: 124
  I havent written one of my "Focus on" pieces for ages, which is a shame. I enjoy writing them, and also find that even though they are quite rudimentary, they help focus my mind. Whilst writing a single level narrative about a specific designer, my brain runs ahead of me making connections to novels and articles I ...
  4 days ago

• The Sixties turn 50

  
  Retro Renovation — Authority: 428
  The Sixties Turn 50 on Dipity. The 1960s are poised to turn 50…and to mark the anniversary the LA Conservancy has created a website spotlighting architecture and history of the period in the city, and is also running educational programs through the year. This timeline is terrific… and a great reminder of the ...
  5 days ago

• Future Comes to Ed Sullivan

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 114
  I love this Sly and the Family Stone performance on Ed Sullivan. Sometimes two times simultaneously coexist. Here the fifties give up the ghost as Sly sings our way into the end of the sixties. You see youthful roots including Slys show stopping Woodstock performance, only a few months away, in a television venue ...
  6 days ago

• Run for Shelter!!!

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 548
  There have been many great eras of fashion, the roaring twenties, swinging sixties and the retro seventies, but born in the eighties I missed these poignant decades.Fortunately all the great trends come back into fashion and I was lucky enough to experience a night of forties fashion and frolics at Londons Blitz ...
  1 week ago

• tossing fearnando into the fire

  
  Deborah Wiles - One Pomegranate — Authority: 116
  Its cold in Hotlanta. We didnt get snow, but weve got freezing temps in the wee hours of the morning, which makes getting up to write in the dark a true wintry affair. So we try to lay in some wood for morning, and I try to start the fire when Im up. I have officially moved to the pink chair by the fireplace for ...
  1 week ago

• The Beat Hotel documentary

  
  ... Stupefaction ... — Authority: 551
  "The Beat Hotel, a new film by Documentary Arts , goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took ...
  1 week ago

• Badgley Mischka Angela Satchel | Traditional Patent Graphic Purse

  
  BagBunch - Bags, Handbags & Purses — Authority: 575
  This is a gorgeous traditional bag from respected luxury designer Badgley Mischka. Good quality patent leather always looks good, and the effect is emphasised here by the contrasting white trim. That white trim works to create that graphic sixties style pattern, with a stylised over-sized button clasp and a funky ...
  1 week ago

• Big B holds special screening of Paa in Chennai

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec. 6 (ANI): Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan held a special screening of his latest movie ‘Paa’ for the cast and crew of the film in Chennai on Saturday.Directed by R. Balki, the film relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy played by Amitabh Bachchan now in his mid-sixties, who suffers from a ...
  1 week ago

• 40th anniversary of Altamont concert

  
  San Francisco Metblogs — Authority: 480
  1969 was a huge year in the history of the U.S., as the free-love hippie movement soured and turned bad. Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the the concert at Altamont Speedway in Costra Costa County ( map ) where the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels to protect the stage and they wound up killing some poor ...
  1 week ago

• Junior Wells: The Hoodoo Man

  
  The Blues Blogger — Authority: 106
  A few days ago my brother emailed me some pictures I haven’t seen for more than 30 years. Some memorable images that acted as a strong reminder of the many articles I’ve written as The Blues Blogger . One of these was a piece I wrote last summer on Junior Wells… Since there are so many new readers in the past ...
  1 week ago

• 
  Double O Section — Authority: 469
  R.I.P. Richard Todd "Ian Flemings choice to play James Bond" British actor Richard Todd has died of cancer at the age of 90, according to the Associated Press . Although Todd is probably best known for his performances in some great war films of the Fifties and Sixties (including The Dam Busters and The ...
  1 week ago

• RIP Bobby Keane : The Rise and Fall of a Music Man

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 567
  Ritchie Valens, left, and Bob Keane, then president of Del-Fi Records, on TV show in Los Angeles, 1958. Photo from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.Musician and music biz progidy:The ill-starred life of Bobby KeaneBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009Bobby Kuhn was born in California in 1922, at ...
  1 week ago

• Get Wetter in Brighton

  
  Get some Vintage-a-Peel — Authority: 125
  Oh how I would love to have some of these outfits (and some Kinky Kaps) for running around on Brighton beach...especially given the appalling weather lately! Petticoat (January, 1967)
  1 week ago

Comments about sixties